New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday brushed away the notion the Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s defeat in the reelection election was simply a warning flag to Democratic mayors, declaring it an “warning sign for the country” all around.
“I showed up at crime scenes. I knew what New Yorkers were saying. And I saw it all over the country. I think, if anything, it is really stating that this is what I have been talking about. America, we have to be safe,” Adams stated to the CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.”
Adams was elected Mayor in 2021 following a campaign that was focused on public safety and fighting the rise in crime.
Lightfoot is the first candidate who was elected in 2019, was defeated in her reelection effort in the last week, failing be able to get one of two runoffs. Chicago is currently the third largest city in recent years to have a mayoral race which has tested the attitudesin a largely Democratic electorate police and crime.
The violence in Chicago increased in the years between the years 2020 and 2021. While murders and shootings have decreased since then other crimes — like carjacking, theft, burglaries, and robberiesare up since the year before, as per the report of Chicago’s Police Department’s year-end report.
“Mayors, we are closer. We’re closest to the problem,” Adams declared Sunday, describing public safety as an “prerequisite to prosperity” in American cities. “We are focused on public safety because people want to be safe.”
Adams was asked on Sunday about the criticism he received from Democrats who claim that his views on crime harm the party but assists Republicans.
“The polls were clear. New Yorkers felt unsafe, and the numbers showed that they were unsafe,” Bash said. Bash. “Now, if we want to ignore what the everyday public is stating, then that’s up to them. I’m on the subways. I walk the streets. I speak to everyday working-class people. And they were concerned about safety.”
Adams has also addressed the criticism which has followed his remarks in an event for interfaith dialogue on Wednesday in which he said “Don’t tell me about no separation of church and state. State is the body, church is the heart. You take the heart out of the body, the body dies.”
“What I believe,” the man said on the other day “is the fact that it is impossible to dissociate your faith from the other. The government shouldn’t interfere with religious beliefs and religion should not interfere with the government. However, I am convinced that my faith drives me to improve how I manage and the things I do.”
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